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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

THADDEUS P. HUBBELL, OF MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS.

NOSE-GUARD FOR SPECTACLES.

EEiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,977, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed February 2, 1885.

To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THADDEUS P. HUBBELL, a citizen of the United States; residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Jefferson and State of Illinois, have invented a new and use ful Nose-Guard for Spectacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a thin metal saddleshaped attachment to the under side of the nose-piece of a pair of spectacles for the purpose of protecting the ,nosefrom being indented or pained by their weight; and, further, to prevent the nose becoming sore from the constant pressure of the nose-piece. I at tain these objects by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are considered a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of a pair of spectaoles with an A nose-piece having the nose guard attached. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3is a front view of a 7i nose-piece, and Fig. 4 isa front view of an X nose-piece, each with the nose-guard attached. Fig. 5 is an enlarged top view of the nose-guard, and Fig. 6 is a cross-section of the enlarged noseguard.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout each of the figures.

The invention consists of a thin piece of sheet metal curved so as to comfortably fit the nose under the nose-piece of the spectacles, as shown at A in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4.. The edges of the-metal are strengthened and made smooth by means of a fine wire, about which they are bent, as shown at B B in Figs. 5 and 6. At

the ends the rolls about the wires are con- (No model.)

tinued past the body of the metal between them, as shown at O O in Fig. 5, the wires stopping at the end of the intervening metal. The rolls are flattened, as shown at C, Fig. 5, which represents a side view of the roll. The ends of the rolls, being thus flattened, are easily bent about the nose-piece, as at E, Fig. 5. The metal of which the nose-guard is attached to or removed from the spectacles. The nose-guard, being thus fastened at the ends to the nose'piece, is loosely hinged, that it may work freely under it and readily adjust itself to the nose of the wearer.

The metal of which the nose-guard is made is to be perforated, as shown by Fig. 5, or left plain, as the inventor may desire, the object of the perforations being to lighten the metal and to permit natural exudation.

The nose-guard is designed to be attached to either an A, X, or X, or other nose-piece, as represented by Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent lS- 1. The nose-guard consisting of the thin piece of sheet metal with the edges rolled about the wires and the rolls produced at the ends and flattened, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

2. The perforated metal nose-guard, as described, and for the purposes specified.

THADDEUS P. HUBBELL.

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